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1 Maccabees 4:13-15
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 4:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 they came out of their camp to engage in battle. Then the men with Judas blew their trumpets, 14 and the fighting began. The Gentiles were defeated and fled into the plain. 15 All those who were in the rear fell by the sword, and the rest were pursued as far as Gazara[a] and the plains of Judea, to Azotus and Jamnia, with about three thousand of them slain.
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- 1 Maccabees 4:15 The pursuit took all directions: Gazara, or Gezer (Jos 21:21; 1 Ki 9:17), lay five miles northwest of Emmaus; Judea was to the far south; Azotus, or Ashdod, and Jamnia, were west and southwest.
